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On Gay "Marriage" and Other Disorders

Benedict XVI says the Christian vision of man is a great "yes" to his
or her dignity and social nature, and in this context, the Church
stresses a great "yes" to the dignity and beauty of marriage.

In the same vein, the Pope said on Saturday, the Church voices a "no" to such philosophies as the philosophy of gender.

... "The Christian vision of man is, in fact, a great 'yes' to the
dignity of the person called to intimate communion with God, a filial
communion, humble and confident," he added. "The human being is neither
an individual subsisting in himself nor an anonymous element of the
collective. He is rather a singular and unrepeatable person
intrinsically ordered to relationship and sociality.

"For this reason the Church stresses her great 'yes' to the dignity
and beauty of marriage as an expression of a faithful and fecund
alliance between man and woman, and says 'no' to such philosophies as
the philosophy of gender. The Church is guided by the fact that the
reciprocity between man and woman is the expression of the beauty of the
nature willed by the Creator."

... the Holy Father pointed to ideologies of recent centuries that
praised the "cult of the nation, the race, of the social class," as well
as "unbridled capitalism with its cult of profit, which has led to
crisis, inequality and misery."He spoke of the "shadows in our time," referring "above all to a
tragic anthropological reduction that re-proposes ancient material
hedonism, to which is added a 'technological prometheism.'"

... "From the marriage of a materialistic vision of man and great
technological development there emerges an anthropology that is at
bottom atheistic," the Holy Father explained.

...In such a perspective, the Pontiff warned, anything that is
technologically possible becomes morally legitimate, "every experiment
is thus acceptable, every political demographic acceptable, every form
of manipulation justified."

"Man wants to be 'ab-solutus,' absolved of every bond and of every
natural constitution," the Pope continued. "He pretends to be
independent and thinks that his happiness lies solely in the affirmation
of self. [...] This is a radical negation of man's creatureliness and
filial condition, which leads to a tragic solitude."

(We're not holding our breath awaiting the Left-o-"Catholic" affirmation of the Pope's remarks.)

Doesn't take a lot of smarts to figure out that the Pope will not be on the invite-list to the White House any time in the next 4 years, does it?

"In the same vein, the Pope said on Saturday, the Church voices a "no" to such philosophies as the philosophy of gender."

Absolutely, according to the worldview held by the RCC, God sees men and women as his creation, as one with Him.

But the last time I checked, our federal government is secular in nature and therefore free from the opinion of the RCC in this matter. More importantly, the "philosophy of gender" is a well-established anthropological fact.

You see, anthropology, by itself, does NOT cause people to be atheists, nor is the study of anthropology anti-religious. To be an anthropologist, one works toward being highly educated scientist. The individuals in this field focus on questioning or thinking about matters that may be religious in nature, and their findings may be devoid of any religious meaning. Fundamentalist Christians, of course, do not subscribe to the concepts found in anthropology, so naturally there will be arguments derived from the Bible to counter scientific findings regarding "how human nature is constructed".